Posted by Fleming Turner

If you are asking am I overweight, but don’t know how to tell, there’s a simple answer – your Body Mass Index or BMI. It’s a fairly accurate measure of whether you’re overweight, underweight, or within a healthy range. Essentially, BMI is a method that uses your weight and height to calculate a double digit [...]

Posted by Fleming Turner

Overweight women are at high risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes. To investigate whether this association is causal, researchers in Sweden examined changes in prepregnancy maternal BMI between the first and second pregnancies in relation to outcomes of the second pregnancy in 151,025 women who had had two singleton births during the period from 1992 to [...]